Probal Dasgupta
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Probal Dasgupta is the current (2010–2013) president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association).
Dasgupta obtained his PhD from New York University
(1980; thesis title: Questions and Relative and Complement Clauses in a Bangla Grammar) and became professor for applied linguistics at University of Hyderabad
in 1989.
Since 2004 he is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America
.
Dasgupta obtained his PhD from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
(1980; thesis title: Questions and Relative and Complement Clauses in a Bangla Grammar) and became professor for applied linguistics at University of Hyderabad
University of Hyderabad
The University of Hyderabad is a post-graduate teaching and research institute in India. It was established by an act of the Parliament in 1974 as a Central University. The university also offers courses under distance learning programs...
in 1989.
Since 2004 he is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
.
Works (selection)
- Degree words in Esperanto and categories in universal grammar. In: Klaus Schubert: Interlinguistics: aspects of the science of planned languages, 1989 pp. 231–247
- Towards a dialogue between the sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture. Pune 1987
- The otherness of English: India's auntie tongue syndrome: New Delhi. Thousand Oaks / London: Sage 1993.
- Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta, Jayant K. Lele. New Delhi: Sage 1995.
- After Etymology, 2000
Translations from Bengali
- Manashi DasGupta: Dormanta hejmaro, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo 2006
- Manashi DasGupta: Mi juna, Rotterdam: Esperantaj Kajeroj 1989
- Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
: Primico, København: TK 1977 - Upendronath Gangopaddhae: Klera edzino, Pisa: Edistudio 1994